I don’t know whether to be excited or frightened, but I’m
leaning toward excited. It’s still pretty bulky, but I imagine
another year’ll solve that. I’d like to add a small playback
display, so when I space out during a conversation, I can gracefully
recover by pressing the capture button, excusing myself, and rewinding
the
last 30 seconds:

&quot;How's that sound to you, Chad?&quot;
(wakes up)
&quot;Uh...yea...hold on just a moment. I'll be right back.&quot;
(leaves room, plays back video, returns)
&quot;Right, then...&quot; (potentially less ignorant conversation ensues)

Even more exciting—but farther off in the future—is the
possibility of combining the audio portion of this technology with
wireless
networking, speech recognition, and text data mining. Imagine the power
of
having a personal, searchable (LatentSemanticIndexing),
index of every conversation you have and everything you hear. May that
sounds a little spooky? Doesn’t feel quite right to you? That’s
just the feeling of old age creeping over you…it’s OK. :)